Idea..

[Crusty]

Ok guys and girls. I have been thinking about an idea for a little while now. basically i'd like to try my hand at designing a VB style.

As you may know the styles on this site are free styles from other designers. While i was running Monster Designs I started on creating a style from scratch. Never finished it and I'd like to have another go.

Anyhow, the reason I am posting this here is I need some feedback and ideas from you the forum users. The style I am looking at creating is going to be for this forum obviously. Given that we are mainly an Arcade Based forum, i'd like to design around that theme.

So what do you think about when you hear arcade?

For me being a little more old school, i see pacman, Spaced invaders, Donkey Kong, Pinball machines...

So what do you think of?

Also what color scheme would you like? I am thinking of maybe a black, blue and silver combo..

[TGLucario]

i think a bit of old skool & a bit of new school

Old School - Pacman etc
New Skool - Guitar Hero etc etc

[O.G]

Will get my thinking cap on and let you know BC

[Setarime]

I will have a think and get back to you BC but, as hard it is for me to say, I like TGL's idea, a combination of old school and new school sounds good

[Saurgrist]

When I think of Arcade games, I think of older games, as you said, like Pacman, Space Invaders, etc. But I do also think of games that I played when I was younger such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons, and games like that as well.

Newer games will be easier to find for graphics, such as Tekken titles, House of the Dead, various racing games, and stuff like that, but I think that older games are easier to base the skin on as they are very well known, and I feel that arcades back then were more popular than they are now because of the rise in console use.

A mix of old and new could be good, but because of the complete differences in pictures/texts/graphics, it may not be as smooth as one might want.

I think it's a great idea BC, and if you can do it, that would be really cool... I am sure it takes tons of time, so thank you.

And black, blue and silver seems like it would work very well here. I stick with the green and black skin, but I think yours sounds even easier on the eyes.

[Crusty]

I have had a look at planet renders and i see they have plenty of renders worth looking at.

[Crusty]

Ok I have created a new style called WIP. Work in Progress.

Starting to play with some colors..

[Crystal]

I like your ideas Black Cobra

[Crusty]

Not quite the look I am looking as yet.. I am trying to work out which colors work best with each other.

[Crystal]

I think black yellow and silver